Leaving Ye's house

  The wind blew gently, a small brown creature wailed and rushed over to bite onto Mo Tian Ge's sleeve.

  Mo Tian Ge gently patted its head: "Don't make a fuss, be quiet for a while."

  The fierce beast blinked its shiny black eyes and sat down beside her motionlessly.

  Mò Tiān Gē was amused by its wronged expression and couldn't help but pat it again: "How is it, does it feel like the true body dotes on you more?"

  The fierce beast let out two loud roars, it was unclear whether it was in agreement or opposition.

  The song of the wild sky once again shook its head, gazing at the flowing stream water, and sighed: "I'm not a good master, I can only let you cultivate on your own, let you help me refine the elixir, but won't accompany you to play."

  The fierce beast barked twice, biting her sleeve and shaking it back and forth, as if it was being playful.

  Mo Tian Ge smiled and said softly: "Xiao Huo, why don't you stay and keep Zhen Ji company?"

  When she heard this sentence, Lie Huo Beast suddenly raised its head, a pair of eyes staring at her face, as if it didn't understand why she said that.

  "There is no spiritual beast contract between us, the reason you are so close to me is because your breath is connected with the Void Sky Realm. You have lived here for a long time and naturally have a sense of connection with me. Zhen Ji was raised by you, all these years when you were not in the Void Sky Realm, you were always by his side, your feelings are even deeper than mine. Now I don't feel at ease leaving him alone in the mundane world, will you stay behind and accompany him?"

  The eyes of the fierce beast suddenly opened wide, but it didn't make a sound.

  Moyan Song knew that this fierce beast had eaten something in the Void Heaven Realm, making it more intelligent than ordinary spiritual beasts, so she wasn't commanding, but negotiating.

  "Don't worry, I've refined many pellets for second and third-tier spirit beasts. When the time comes, I'll give them to Zhen Ji, and your cultivation won't be a problem. This time I'm leaving, it will take at least three years or at most five years. I should be back before you advance to the next stage."

  This was what she had been thinking about for a long time. Without the fierce fire beast, it would be inconvenient for her to refine the elixir, but since Zhen Machine had not yet built his foundation, leaving him alone in the mundane world made her uneasy. It would be better to leave Xiao Huo by his side. There was only one second-grade spiritual beast, and she thought that even if he encountered any danger, nothing would happen to him.

  The fierce beast lowered its head and let out a few mournful cries, its mood somewhat downcast, but it did not object.

  The sky was laughing, and a few more elixirs were given to it. Sighed: "I'd better leave first, Ye family... All I can do for them is this. Unless one day they have a large number of spiritual roots juniors, enough to support a family, or I get married and have children to protect them... For now, I don't have enough power, telling them my identity would only add trouble. Hope Zhenji understands my thoughts."

  "Auntie!" A voice came from outside, it was Ye Zhenji's. Mo Tian Ge raised her hand, a glint of light flashed between her eyebrows, and she had already returned to reality.

  The prohibition was lifted, and Ye Zhenji strode in, smiling as soon as he saw her: "Auntie, you've finally left the mountain for a trip, but you're still practicing!"

  Mó Tiān gē smiled and shook his head: "I'm used to it." In the past, my talent was too poor, I could only make up for it with diligence. Now that my talent has improved, I'm even more worried that I'll become lazy in my cultivation and waste my good talent.

  When Ye Zhenji came in, she lifted the ban again and asked: "How come you're not with your family? It'll be hard to see them later."

  When asked this, Ye Zhenji sat down on the table with a sullen expression: "Don't mention it, I was originally accompanying my dad and them to talk, but I couldn't bear to listen. So I came out."

  "Can't get used to it?" Mo Tian Ge didn't understand, lifted his chin, "Sit properly in the chair."

  "Yes," Ye Zhenji obediently got down from the table, pulled over a chair and sat in front of her, with a tone of discontent, "I just find it strange, I remember when I was young, my father was also very diligent in his practice, how come he's like this now!"

  "How?"

  Ye Zhenji paused, somewhat annoyed, and said: "My dad always talks about food, drink, fun, and nòng power struggles with my uncles. I don't want to listen, so I'll go find Auntie."

  Ye Zhenji's face was filled with discontent, clearly furious at his father. Mo Tian Ge smiled slightly and asked in a soft voice, "Zhenji, how old is your father this year? What is his cultivation like?"

  Ye Zhenji was taken aback: "My father... is already forty-five years old, and yet he's still at the first level of Qi Refining."

  Moye looked at him with a hint of understanding and smiled, "In the Xuanqing Sect, although your innate talent is not outstanding, you still have hope for cultivation. However, as a mortal cultivator, without good spiritual veins or good elixirs, decades of hard work would be in vain - it's not that your father and his peers are not making progress, but they can't feel the hope."

  "But..." Ye Zhenji wanted to say something, but felt that he couldn't come up with a rebuttal.

  Mó Tiān Gē said: "Zhēn Jī, do you still have many pills from the Refining Qi stage on your body?"

  Ye Zhenji nodded: "I originally wanted to give them all these pellets, but seeing them like this, I don't want to give them anymore."

  "It is precisely because they are like this that you should give even more."

  "Why?" Ye Zhenji didn't understand.

  Mo Tian Ge said, "Your father has been unable to advance in rank for decades, naturally losing interest in cultivation. If you give them Dan Yao at this time and let them see the hope of advancing in cultivation, their hearts will naturally return to cultivation - they are not ordinary people, what is more attractive to them than advancing in cultivation?"

  Ye Zhen's eyes widened in surprise: "Right! How could I have forgotten!"

  Moye thought for a moment: "Don't give them too much, it's better to tell them that in the future when they send people to Taikang Mountain, you will also send over dan yao and other things. In this way, although they are still in the mundane world, they will feel the hope of cultivation, and naturally they will put their hearts into cultivation."

  "It's still Auntie who thinks of everything!" Ye Zhenji jumped up, "I'll go right away..."

  "Wait."

  "Yue Zhenji stopped in her tracks: 'Auntie, what's wrong?'"

  "Let's talk about this later, I have something to tell you now."

  "Huh?"

  Mo Tian Ge calmly said: "I came to the Ye household this time just to send you, now that I've safely sent you here, tomorrow I'll be leaving."

  "Ah!" Ye Zhenji was somewhat flustered. "Auntie, you're leaving me here alone?"

  Moyan Song smiled faintly: "What, you don't dare?"

  Ye Zhenji was taken aback and felt a little embarrassed. For ten years, he had never left his aunt's side, and suddenly he panicked.

  Calm down, he said: "Auntie, I... am just a bit unaccustomed. Can't you stay for a while longer?"

  "It doesn't matter whether you leave early or late, you'll still have to leave." Mo Tian Ge stretched out his hand, wanting to ruffle his hair like he used to when he was younger, but now he's already grown so big. He withdrew his hand again, "Don't worry, I'll leave Xiao Huo with you, nothing will happen."

  "I'm not afraid of anything." Ye Zhen looked at her with a pitiful expression, "Auntie, I don't want you to leave."

  Already a grown-up, yet making such an expression, Mò Tiān Gē couldn't help but laugh: "So big already, still acting like a kid!"

  Ye Zhenji's nose twitched, and he smiled. Knowing that Mochen Tiantang had made up his mind to leave, he retreated and asked for the next best thing: "Auntie, why don't I go with you?"

  "I'm going to travel, not play around." Mo Tian Ge explained patiently, "If I bring you along, first of all, we don't know when we'll be back, and it might affect your foundation-building. Secondly, we might go to some dangerous places, and Auntie doesn't have enough power to guarantee your safety yet."

  Ye Zhenji fell silent. He wasn't a foolish child, he knew that Mo Tian Ge's words were all true, it was just that his heart couldn't bear to part with her.

  "Alright, Aunt knows you're sensible and it's not like you won't be back. As cultivators, it's common for us to be apart for many years, or even hundreds of years, the higher your cultivation, the more so. You'll have to get used to it."

  “……Alright.” Ye Zhenji nodded honestly. He wouldn't not understand these principles, would he? Cultivating immortality is about getting used to separation and loneliness. These young cultivators are still okay, at most they'll just be in closed-door training for a year or so; but if it's a cultivator who has formed their dan or above, they might be in closed-door training for dozens of years, and even a hundred years is nothing to them.

  Cultivating immortality is also a lonely path, those who cannot bear loneliness will ultimately fail to achieve the Great Way.

  "Auntie, be careful on your way and send us messages often. Otherwise, I'll worry."

  The smile of a lonely sky, though solitary, is still warm with someone's care.

  "En, you must cultivate diligently, neither neglecting nor rushing. If there's anything, go ask your Shifu. Although your Shifu has a strange temper, he is genuinely supportive of his juniors. Whatever he says, be sure to listen to him."

  "I know." Ye Zhenji replied, thought for a moment, and then asked, "By the way, Auntie, what if my master comes out of seclusion?"

  Moy Tian Ge slightly raised an eyebrow: "Master is still Master, what's with all this fuss?"

  Ye Zhenji scratched her head, saying innocently: "You say it's Master, but I've never seen him till today! Aunt is my real master, that one is just a cheap master picked up."

  Upon hearing this title, Mo Tian Ge couldn't help but let out a "pu" sound and laugh. It's really cheap of Master, these two uncle and niece are indeed consistent in this aspect, both Masters were picked up by others.

  "By the way, Auntie, what's my master like? Huā Líng said he saw him when he was young, but can't remember clearly. The other senior brothers and sisters all say I'm lucky, my master is the top figure among our Xuán Qīng Mén's younger generation, already in the later stage of forming his elixir, if he succeeds in forming his infant within a hundred years, then I'd be incredibly lucky... Ah, anyway, I'm just too fortunate..." Yè Zhēn Jī hastily trailed off, feeling that he had spoken too crudely.

  The difference between being a direct disciple of the Yuan Infant Sect and the Dan Tian Sect is like heaven and earth. If Qin Shoujing really succeeds in forming an infant, even if the true machine is only in his name, it will be extraordinary. At that time, the disciples' shares, Dongfu, and resources will be greatly different from now. When she was still under the guidance of her uncle Xuan Yin, her hands were just a little more generous, but after becoming a formal disciple of Jinghe Daojun, her current family is not inferior to that of an ordinary sect's Dan Tian cultivator.

  "Hmm... At first, your master's master let you be named as your master's indoor disciple, indeed with this intention. However, your master is currently in closed-door meditation, unknown when he will come out, if it's hundreds of years later that he comes out... It doesn't make a difference to you."

  "This is indeed..." Ye Zhenji scratched his head. Anyway, he didn't have much hope for this either, and he didn't feel depressed. It was actually his aunt who taught him to cultivate, anyway that cheap master, whether or not it's the same.

  "Auntie, you haven't told me what my master is like yet!"

  "What if I said I haven't seen it either?"

  Ye Zhen widened his eyes: "How is this possible? They said that your relationship with Shifu and Auntie is not ordinary..."

  "Oh?" Mo Tian Ge slightly furrowed his brow, "What's going on? What did they say?"

  "They said... Auntie was originally introduced by Master to enter the door, and Master's ancestor would accept Auntie as a disciple, also because of Master's face. Probably just these..."

  Mo Tian's expression softened: "When Aunt entered the sect, your master was already a Cong Dan cultivator, why did he need to appear in person?"

  Ye Zhenji thought for a moment and nodded: "That's also true..."

  "What they said is not wrong, your master is the most promising cultivator among the younger generation of Xuán Qīng Gate, with your master's cultivation speed, it's not impossible to achieve enlightenment in about a hundred years. If your master doesn't leave his seclusion during this period, that's fine, but if he happens to come out, you should still show respect to him, this is also the intention of your master's ancestor."

  "Hmm..." Ye Zhenji paused for a moment, then said, "But I already have an aunt, and Master is just a nominal one..."

  Upon hearing the child's words, Mo Tian Ge smiled wryly: "Auntie's age and cultivation are right here, not to mention anything else, your foundation was established just over a decade ago, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you form a dan in this period of time...

  "I'm not that selfish!" Ye Zhenji shouted, "If it weren't for Auntie, I wouldn't be here today. What does that cheap master have to do with me?"

  This sentence made Mo Tian Ge feel both happy and worried. He was happy that in these ten years, she hadn't taught this child to be greedy, but he was worried that without sufficient experience, the child was too immature.

  She finally added: "This is just between us, don't go spreading it around."

  "Don't worry, Auntie, I know."

  "Hmm, what else is unclear?"

  Ye Zhenji heard her ask this and leaned in: "Auntie, you must come back early, I will work hard to build a foundation during this time."

  This sentence made Mo Tian Ge laugh, and in the end, he still stretched out his hand to touch his head: "You go accompany your mother, it's been many years since you've seen her, she misses you very much, and all she talks about is you. You've taken care of everything that should be taken care of, don't let your mother worry."

  "Got it."

  Withdraw your hand, Mo Tian Ge opens the seal, sits cross-legged with eyes closed.

  Ye Zhenji hesitated for a moment before leaving reluctantly.

  Upon hearing the sound of the door closing, Mo Tian Ge opened his eyes again, with a look of concern floating in them.

  This child... is really just like she was back then. Or, perhaps she didn't think it through thoroughly, although she gave him enough care, but let him develop a dependent personality. Just like back then, she relied on her second uncle, and when she lost him, the pain was unbearable.

  It's not that deep emotions are bad, but rather that deep emotions require a broad and open-minded heart to accommodate them. The Taoist scriptures say that the highest state is one of "forgetting emotions", which doesn't mean being unfeeling, but rather being still and unmoving in one's emotions, like one who has forgotten. Cultivators are not necessarily unable to have attachments, and there are indeed those with broad hearts who can maintain their relationships with spouses and children without affecting their cultivation. However, ordinary disciples cannot do so, which is why within the sects, it is generally not encouraged for disciples to be too closely connected with their families.

  Ye Zhen is now facing this kind of problem. After ten years together, it's like a teacher, father, mother and brother, just like her feelings for Er Shu back then.

  But he is also too young now. Meng Tian Ge thought of herself, it was at this age that she lost her second uncle, and if Qin Xi hadn't been by her side to support her back then, perhaps she wouldn't have stood up so quickly either...

  At the mention of this name, she felt a sharp pain in her heart, but soon calmed down.

  This is her good fortune and also her misfortune. If not, she might have to spend a very long time to recover from the blow, if not... She would not easily be moved by people either.

  Fortunately, she cut off this emotional entanglement with a clear head, and later vaguely realized that some things were fortunate for her decisive decision at the time.

  At this point, Mo Tian Ge furrowed his brow and shook his head.

  Forget it, don't think too much about it. She is who she is, and the truth is the truth. The difference between men and women also lies in their personalities. Maybe if she leaves for a while and the truth interacts with other people more often, this dependence will fade away. As for seeing through... that requires fate.

  On the second day, early in the morning, Mo Tian Ge packed up his belongings and left the Ye household.

  The Ye family members all came out to see them off.

  Mochen Song let Ye Zhenji take some unused dan, yao, ling instruments and other items to the head of the Ye family last night as a gift from his senior, for which the Ye family is grateful.

  The Ye family had been in the secular world for a long time and had long since lost their accumulated wealth. When they sent Ye Zhenji to the mountain, they could only take out two or three pieces of spiritual stone and a few dan pills, which shows how impoverished they were. Mo Tian Ge, based on his identity as Ye Zhenji's master uncle, took out more than ten bottles of dan pills and over ten pieces of spiritual equipment, which was indeed a huge fortune for the Ye family.

  Those elixirs were actually leftovers from her alchemy practice, and the spiritual tools were collected by those cultivators who were killed back then. They weren't anything good, so she didn't give them to Ye Zhenji, just casually throwing them into a corner of the Qiankun bag, which happened to be useful now.

  "Here is your real sword. Take good care of it and bring it back to the sect when you return, got it?"

  "Uh-huh." Ye Zhenji nodded and took over Lie Huo Shou. For the past decade, he could be said to have grown up with Xiao Huo by his side, and the bond between him and the beast was very good, so it was only natural for him to hold Xiao Huo in his arms.

  The Ye family people saw this fierce fire beast and they all widened their eyes in shock.

  The several cultivators of the Ye family all saw that this fierce fire beast was a second-grade spiritual beast! A second-grade spiritual beast, equivalent to a cultivator in the early stages of foundation building, was actually given to Ye Zhenji like this!

  "Senior!" Ye Cheng stepped forward, pointing at the Lava Beast in Ye Zhen's arms, and said with a mix of fear and respect, "You're giving this spirit beast to Zhen'er, isn't that not quite right?"

  Mo Tian Ge turned his head and asked him, "Does the master of the Ye family think there's a problem?"

  Ye Cheng said: "This is a second-order spiritual beast, it should be able to help you. If you give it to Zhen Er, then what about yourself?"

  Mo Tian Ge said faintly, "This spiritual beast is of no great use even if it stays by my side. It's better to let Zhen Ji take care of it. Don't worry, Ye Jia Zhu, Xiao Huo grew up with Zhen Ji and they have a good relationship, so it won't harm Zhen Ji."

  "That's not what I meant..."

  Mo Tian Ge knew he was just worried, so he waved his hand and interrupted him: "Don't worry about it, Ye Jia Zhu. Alright, Zhen Ji, Master Shu is leaving now. You've been staying at home for several months, remember to return to the sect on time. If you miss the assessment, the next one will be three years later."

  "Alright, Master Uncle, don't worry, I know all these things."

  "Well, I'll be off then. You don't need to see me out." With that, she didn't say another word, waved her hand, and a white silk handkerchief flew up, transforming into a streak of light that vanished into the sky.

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